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HARRY F. CARPENTER AND BOYD G. NEYLAND, OF ERIE, PENNSYLVANIA.

CABLE-RING.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 28, 1920.

Application filed May 19, 1919. Serial No. 298,312.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HARRY F. CARPENTER and BOYD G. NnrLAND, citizens of the United States, residing at Erie, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Cable-Rings, of which the following is a specification.

Cable rings as commonly formed have the loop forming the ring and the hanger extensions of the same width and the bearing in the loop portion for the cable is usually so narrow as to work through the cable covering and thus damage the wire forming the cables. It is common also to form the ends of the hooks on the hanger extensions by simply bending over the hanger extensions. Ordinarily this makes hooks of such stiflness as to require such a heavy pressure to close them over the messenger wire that the operator very often neglects to properly close the hooks. Vith the present invention these difficulties are obviated.

T he invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings as follows Figure 1 shows an end elevation of the cable ring.

Fig. 2 a side elevation.

Fig. 3 the blank.

1 marks the loop, 2 the hanger extensions, and 3 the hook formed on the hanger extensions. It will be noted that the hanger extensions are just half the width of the loop and in forming them from a strip of metal it is possible to cut extensions for successive rings from the same portion of the metal strip, thus saving the amount of metal necessary to form rings with the loop portion of such width as is shown. In this way a loop portion having a bearing surface of double the width of the extensions can be readily made without increasing the amount of metal used in the extensions.

T he loop is rounded at the edges 5 so as to facilitate the drawing through of the cable.

lle prefer to sever the ends of the loops so as to make the parts d of the severed ends extend from the top of the hook to the end of the hook. The operator can pinch or close each part i separately and this requires very much less effort than where the entire hook must be closed in one operation. By simply severing the ends leaving the total width of the parts 4 equal to the extension there is no sacrifice in strength.

l/Vhat we claim as new is A. cable ring comprising a ring loop; hanger extensions on the loop; hooks formed in the ends of the extensions, the end of each HARRY F. CARPENTER. BOYD G. NEYLAND. 

